Animator Pro Doesnt Work
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Hi.
I just received my copy of Animator Pro 1.3. When I try to run ANI.EXE or
ANIPLAY.EXE, the files start to load, then the computer hangs. Any idea what's
going on?
System: 386/25DX, 16MB RAM, DOS 6 with Dblspace.
Thanks,
Mark
What happens if you boot up without an AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS?
(temporarily rename them)
Well, I didn't try and if I did…I couldn't get at anything since I loaded
the program on a doublespace drive! Can't access it without the driver
loaded!
Mark
Double space is not a good idea for AAPRO. It uses a Virtual Memory Manager
which writes temporary files to the Hard disk. These files really should be
placed on an uncompressed drive. Also, with DOS 6.. are you using EMM386
and/or MEMAKER?
-Brian
Well, I have two harddrives and I put AAPRO on drive D which is compressed, but
AAPRO seems to want to put it's temp files on drive C, which is not compressed.
I'm using EMM386 and that turned out to be the problem. I was using the NoEMS
switch, and apparently AAPRO either doesn't want EMM386 running at all, or if
it is running, AAPRO wants some Expanded memory allocated. I gave up using
MemMaker, since it always came up with less free memory than I could do setting
everything manually.
Thanks for the reply,
Mark